Peppermint Tea

Oh man. Remind me never to get Peppermint tea again. I got reeled in by the beautifulness of its box and the reputation of the brand (yeah, I've had it before, yeah, I didn't much like it). I should know better! Gahhh!

Has it ever happened to you? You just love the advertising/packaging/overall design so much, you just buy the product?! Even though you don't need it?

For those of you not studying Graphic Design, Marketing, or anything related to this, you might want to read how stores use science to make you buy things you don't need. (It's a link to Cracked.com, and I must warn you that it is a super addictive website!)

Rainbow Cake???

So the last time I tried it, it didn't really work out as I wanted it to... ahem... anyway, I'm really quite inspired to give it a go again.

Here's the recipe.

p.s.: I've been making some rather lovely hair clips, and I would so love to post them here... I need to find a camera and get snapping!

New look

Hello there! You may have seen the Shabby Blogs notice on the left this past week. Long story short, they switched servers, and I had to get the code for the background again. Which is when I noticed that my old yellow background had retired. They no longer have it. And hence it was time for a new look!! But, really, apart from a few colour changes, everything's the same :)

Do you like it? :D

- Shabby backgrounds

- This is where I got my hex codes (for the colours) from.

Rosette Brooch

Guess who's almost finished making a rosette brooch, quite similar to the picture in the post below? Guess who's also writing a tutorial for it? Guess who met Santa today?

[Yes, me!]

Of brooches and washing machines ...

I made a corsage brooch.

I proudly showed it to my grandma.

I grinned and put it in the pocket of my favourite purple hoodie. [Why oh why did I do that?!]

I chucked the hoodie in the washing machine.

And I got an awesome-smelling scrunched up brooch as a result.

Thank goodness it's not that scrunched up. Thank goodness the cardboard didn't disintegrate [I'd've cried if it had]. Thank goodness I hadn't yet attached the pin to it [which means it's not a brooch brooch as of now, but, oh well, it's getting there! :P]!

A close-up of my broochie [which is not technically a broochie].

About that awesome glass bulb. Mum got it from Smith & Caugheys for $1!! And about those ribbons. I got them for 20c and they're actually used as hair bands. I got 10 colours! :D